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Re:Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's A... by fiatmoney on Saturday March 26, 2016 @02:43PM (#11366837)
Yeah, it's astounding to me that they didn't have a "don't respond to queries containing X" master blacklist. It's one of the first things you do when you have a publicly facing content generator like this.
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Re:Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's A... by tacos on Saturday March 26, 2016 @03:34PM (#11367070)
This is explicitly mentioned in the Watson/Jeopardy papers from five years ago. Even in the absence of common sense you'd think MS Research academics would've noted the requirement. I'm a Microsoft fanboy but this whole thing is just embarrassing.
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